Uwe Bergmann, DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Uwe Bergmann, DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Uwe Bergmann holds a model of a critical cluster of atoms inside the nitrogenase enzyme where atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a form that living things can use. Bergmann developed the technique that was used to identify a key atom in the cluster as carbon. He is on a team that describes the work in a Nov. 18 Science paper.

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Matt Beardsley, SLAC

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